Keep quoting ten-year old articles! As for POWER7, it is powering the new Blue Waters supercomputer at NCSA and is funded by the NSF and DARPA. It will hook together 16,384 Power7 chips! The transfer rate between nodes will be 192GB per second!
I'm not sure what you mean by "2013 there will be 8 socket T3+ machines with 1024 beefy threads." The IBM Power 795 already supports 256 cores and 1,024 threads. That was in Feb of 2010. So if you're saying in the year 2013 the T3 will support that, then it is already 3 years behind IBM. x86 cannot match that and isn't close, so I don't know why you Linux/x86 fans continue to think it is better than AIX/POWER or Solaris/SPARC. Clearly, Linux/x86 is behind and the gap is wide. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
